Congratulations on newly retired Newburyport firefighters
John Piretti and Paul Gouldthorpe, pictured with Fire Chief Stephen Bradbury
III.
They were the guests of honor during the department’s recent
banquet and dinner at the Newburyport Elks Club.
Photo by Keith Sullivan
Newburyport Fire Department
#happyretirement #firefighters #newburyportma #statesenatorbrucetarr
Congratulations to the 2024 Greater Cape Ann 2024 Small
Business Award Winners!
Presented the winners with an official Senate citation in
commemoration of this prestigious honor at the Greater
Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce Small Business Persons of the Year Celebratory
Dinner at the Castle Manor in Gloucester.
Winners from our community
Essex: Ramie Reader, Reader Electrical
Gloucester: The Ellis Family, Schooner Thomas E. Lannon
Ipswich: John Muldoon, The
Local News
Manchester-by-the-Sea: Erika Brown, The
Cricket
Rockport: Jack & Cathy Porter, Sandy Bay Service Center,
Inc.
#SmallBusinessSaturday
#AwardWinners2024
#capeann
#gloucesterma
#essexma
#manchesterma
#ipswichma
#rockportma
#statesenatorbrucetarr
Congratulations to the Award Winners honored at the Salisbury
Chamber of Commerce Annual Recognition Dinner!
Award Winners
Leadership Award - Wilma McDonald
Chamber Appreciation Award - Charles Takesian
Business of the Year Award - Linda's Alpha Omega Salon
Louis A. Hailson Community Service Award - Fred Knowles
#smallbusinesssaturday
#salisburyma
#awardwinners
#statesenatorbrucetarr
Congratulations to the Small Business Award Winners honored
at the recent Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce Small Business Recognition
Awards Program!
#SmallBusinessSaturday #awardwinners #merrimackvalley
#statesenatorbrucetarr
Congratulations to the Small Business Award Winners honored
at the recent Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce Small Business Recognition
Awards Program!
Congratulations to the Award Winners honored at the
Salisbury Chamber of Commerce Annual Recognition Dinner!
Award Winners ⬇
Leadership Award - Wilma McDonald
Chamber Appreciation Award - Charles Takesian
Business of the Year Award - Linda's Alpha Omega Salon
Louis A. Hailson Community Service Award - Fred Knowles
Congratulations to the 2024 Greater Cape Ann 2024 Small
Business Award Winners!
Presented the winners with an official Senate citation in
commemoration of this pretigious honor at the Greater Cape Ann Chamber of
Commerce Small Business Persons of the Year Celebratory Dinner at the Castle
Manor in Gloucester.
Winners from our community
Essex: Ramie Reader, Reader Electrical
Gloucester: The Ellis Family, Schooner Thomas E. Lannon
Ipswich: John Muldoon, The Local News
Manchester-by-the-Sea: Erika Brown, The Cricket
Rockport: Jack & Cathy Porter, Sandy Bay Service Center,
Inc.
Another fantastic Strawberry Festival in Topsfield!
Thank you to the Topsfield Historical Society for hosting
the 55th Annual Strawberry Festival located on the Topsfield
Town Common.
#topsfieldma #strawberry #strawberryfestival #towncommon #55years #statesenatorbrucetarr
#FlashbackFriday to interview with NBC10 Boston's Matt
Prichard RE: Updates on Salisbury Beach Erosion Mitigation Efforts.
Another fantastic Strawberry Festival in Topsfield! 🍓
Thank you to the Topsfield Historical Society for hosting
the 55th Annual Strawberry Festival located on the Topsfield Town Common.
Moving Service at the Rowley
Fire Department during their recent Annual Firemen’s Sunday Service.
Honored to have celebrated the retirement of their Chaplain
Robert M.J. Hogopian after 25 years of dedicated service in his role.
Solemn Gloucester Firefighter Sunday recognizing our fallen
firefighters in the line of duty. Thank you to our first responders for being
in harm’s way to protect our communities.
#firefighters #sundayservice #gloucesterma #statesenatorbrucetarr
Last month, our Senior District Director, MaryAnn Nay
attended the City of Newburyport’s ceremony to celebrate the generous gift of a
new floating beach wheelchair from non-profit organization SMILE Mass.
The ceremony took place at the Harbormaster Attendant
building at Plum Island Point beach.
SMILE Mass (Small Miracles in Life Exist) is a 501C3
non-profit organization that helps families raising children or adults with
disabilities enjoy happy, healthy memories through education, vacation, and
recreation experiences.
Since its inception, SMILE Mass has donated more than 180
floating beach wheelchairs to public ponds and beaches throughout New England
to make them more accessible to all.
Newburyport is one of five winners of the 2024 Floating
Beach Wheelchair Award.
The floating beach wheelchair will be maintained by the
Harbormaster’s Office, and community members can reserve use of the chair on
the City’s reservation site here, under Facilities: https://newburyportma.myrec.com/info/facilities
Learn more about the ceremony in an article by Dave Rogers
at the Daily
News of Newburyport
https://www.newburyportnews.com/.../article_7f3d0386-1f4a...
Photo by Keith Sullivan
#ADA
#Accessibility
#wheelchairaccessible
#newburyportma
#plumisland#statesenatorbrucetarr
Thank you to the Topsfield Police Department and the Topsfield Fire Department in conjunction with NERAC for inviting our office to the Mass Casualty Incident Functional Exercise held on the Topsfield Fair grounds.
Thank you for all you do to keep us all safe!
#topsfieldma #emergencypreparedness #statesenatorbrucetarr
Congratulations to the Merrimack
College on the recent Opening of the Shared Instrumentation and Research
facility at Palmisano Hall in North Andover!
The Opening of the Shared Instrumentation and Research
Facility signifies another step forward as Merrimack College pushes to become a
Carnegie classified R2 research institution.
The event featured a blessing of the facility, a
ribbon-cutting ceremony, and a tour of our new laboratories and equipment
rooms.
#merrimackcollege
#northandoverma
#statesenatorbrucetarr
Wonderful visit with our graduating 8th Grade students from
the Ipswich
Middle School in the Town
of Ipswich on their recent tour of the State House!
Kristin
Kassner State Representative 2nd Essex District
#ipswichma
#highschoolbound
#statehouse
#statesenatorbrucetarr
Tomorrow the Massachusetts State Senate will convene in a full formal session at 10 am to consider action on S. 2834, An Act relative to the Affordable Homes Act.
Wonderful visit with our graduating 8th Grade students from
the Ipswich Middle School in the Town of Ipswich on their recent tour of the
State House!
Last month, our Senior District Director, MaryAnn Nay
attended the City of Newburyport’s ceremony to celebrate the generous gift of a
new floating beach wheelchair from non-profit organization SMILE Mass.
The ceremony took place at the Harbormaster Attendant
building at Plum Island Point beach.
SMILE Mass (Small Miracles in Life Exist) is a 501C3
non-profit organization that helps families raising children or adults with
disabilities enjoy happy, healthy memories through education, vacation, and
recreation experiences.
Since its inception, SMILE Mass has donated more than 180
floating beach wheelchairs to public ponds and beaches throughout New England
to make them more accessible to all.
Newburyport is one of five winners of the 2024 Floating
Beach Wheelchair Award.
Thank you to The Greater Boston Food Bank for inviting our
office on a recent ‘hard hat tour’ of their Cold Storage Expansion project—the
largest investment in GBFB’s facility since it was built 15 years ago!
This initiative, funded by state grants secured in 2021, is
part of a multi-pronged effort to provide more perishable items, including
fresh fruits and vegetables, to the 1 in 3 people who continue to struggle with
food insecurity in our region.
By enhancing their cold storage capacity, they will be
better able to serve the 600 local food distribution partners in Eastern MA
that rely on GBFB for the food they provide, including The Open Door.
This initiative, funded by state grants secured in 2021, is
part of a multi-pronged effort to provide more perishable items, including
fresh fruits and vegetables, to the 1 in 3 people who continue to struggle with
food insecurity in our region.
By enhancing their cold storage capacity, they will be
better able to serve the 600 local food distribution partners in Eastern MA
that rely on GBFB for the food they provide, including The
Open Door.
Learn more about this important public investment and how
the GBFB aims to capitalize on this much-needed enhancement to their warehouse
to advance their mission to End Hunger Here and provide more healthy food to
600,000 people in our area each month:
• GBFB’s 2024 statewide study on Food Equity and Access,
which reported 1 in 3 neighbors facing food insecurity at some point last year:
https://www.gbfb.org/.../GBFB_Food-Access-Report_2024...
• The annual MEFAP report, highlighting the impact of the MA
Emergency Food Assistance Program (MEFAP) on food-insecure individuals and the
local economy. GBFB and sister food banks in MA are advocating for $42.5M in
the FY24 state budget for MEFAP: https://www.gbfb.org/.../05/GBFB_MEFAPFY23_Final-Report.pdf
• Project COLD landing page with updates on construction: https://consigli.preview.ceros.com/.../page-663947e26ae4f
Congratulations to the North
Shore Community College on the recent dedication of their new
Henderson-Bertolon Simulation Center on their Danvers Campus!
Got to experience first-hand how simulation in their new
hospital-inspired Center is transforming health care in our region.
#simulation #simulationtraining #northshorecommunitycollege #danversma #statesenatorbrucetarr
Recent productive and insightful meeting with my colleagues
in the Massachusetts Caucus of Women Legislators discussing our ongoing shared
legislative priorities.
The UMass Amherst Marine Station is a unique and remarkable
resource that deserves this type of major investment and support.
Over the years it has provided invaluable assistance to the
commercial fishing industry, and can continue to do so in the future.
Now, however, it is poised to do so much more as it
continues to evolve into a multi-faceted center playing a transformational role
in sustainability, efforts to address climate change, and economic development.
The station is experiencing a Renaissance, and one that will
have countless benefits.
MA Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer visited Rockport, MA at the
Rockport Music Shalin Liu Performance Center discussing important initiatives
around climate change and coastal resiliency.
Recently, I joined the Newburyport Lions Club in honoring
several community volunteers and Lions for their exceptional service to the
community during their “The Melvin Jones
Award” ceremony and was also able to present them with a Senate citation in
recognition of this remarkable accomplishment.
Melvin Jones was the founder of the Lions Club. This Award
is the highest form of recognition and embodies humanitarian ideals consistent
with the nature and purpose of the Lions.
Michael Jones, CEO and President of Institution for Savings,
accepted the award on their behalf for all they do in building stronger
communities together through service.
Sue Coppinger, a Lion and Newbury Pantry volunteer, received
this award for her tireless service to the Lions through the many events she
led this year.
Jane Merrow, one of the two founders and current leader, was
also recognized for the tremendous service the Newbury Food Pantry provides to
our communities.
#FlashbackFriday to our most recent North Shore Water
Resiliency Task Force Meeting which brought together over 30 key stakeholders,
including my colleagues Kristin Kassner State Representative 2nd Essex District
and Sally Kerans for State Representative.
Through unprecedented collaboration and focus, the Task
Force is building the foundation for fact and science-based consensus to
capture the unique opportunity we have for major investment
to provide resilience for the river and the water our communities
need.
Honored to have attended the Flag Raising Ceremony to
kickoff Pride month in the Town of Manchester by the Sea 🏳️🌈
Last month, the City of Newburyport continued its commitment
to honoring their city’s black history in an incredibly moving ceremony at the
Old Hill Burying Ground.
Headstones marked ‘Once Known’ were placed on the unmarked
graves of 18 people buried in a section of the Old Hill Burying Ground, known
as the African-American burying ground.
To learn more about this incredibly moving ceremony, read
Jim Sullivan’s article in the Daily News of Newburyport:
https://www.newburyportnews.com/.../article_00f93486-177a...
Honored to have participated in Juneteenth flag raising
ceremonies and celebrations held throughout our community in commemoration of
Freedom Day.
Town of Wenham, Massachusetts
City of Gloucester, MA
Rockport, MA Town Administrator
City of Newburyport
Happy Juneteenth!
For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth
holiday has been celebrated and is observed annually on June 19th.
It marks the day in 1865 when Union Army General Gordon
Granger and 2,000 Union Troops arrived in Galveston, Texas bringing the news
that slavery had been abolished by the Emancipation Proclamation.
Recently joined Congressman Seth Moulton on his tour of The
Open Door to discuss federal support for hunger relief and nutrition
assistance.
Congratulations to Black Earth Compost on the ribbon cutting
for their North Shore Regional Compost Center!
Honored to have been a part of this ceremony and looking
forward to the continued benefits their sustainable efforts create for our
communities.
Happy Flag Day 2024
“The whole inspiration of our life as a nation flows out
from the waving folds of this banner.” ~Author Unknown
On this day in 1777, the Second Continental Congress passed
a resolution to adopt a United States flag.
Although the flag has seen alterations over the years since
its conception, it has always served as a constant reminder that our great
nation is a free nation and will continue to be a source of pride as our
country moves forward.
I hope we all take a few moments to reflect on this great
nation and the men and women who risk their lives to ensure the flag continues
to fly as a symbol of freedom and democracy.
